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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Grand Slams by Pitchers

Here is a list of all the grand slams hit by pitchers since 1954:

Date

Batter

Tm

Opp

Pitcher

Inn

Score

4/22/1956

Don Larsen

NYY

BOS

Frank Sullivan

4

2-1

7/10/1958

Lew Burdette

MLN

@LAD

Johnny Podres

4

0-0

4/15/1959

Bob Grim

KCA

@CHW

Barry Latman

3

4-0

8/1/1959

Bob Purkey

CIN

CHC

John Buzhardt

3

5-2

8/14/1960

Camilo Pascual

WSH

@NYY

Bob Turley

6

1-1

8/9/1961

Don Drysdale

LAD

MLN

Don Nottebart

2

1-1

5/30/1962

Pedro Ramos

CLE

@BAL

Chuck Estrada

6

3-0

8/2/1962

Art Mahaffey

PHI

@NYM

Craig Anderson

3

2-1

5/31/1963

Orlando Pena

KCA

WSA

Claude Osteen

5

4-3

7/15/1963

Carl Willey

NYM

HOU

Ken Johnson

2

1-2

4/27/1965

Camilo Pascual

MIN

@CLE

Stan Williams

1

3-0

7/20/1965

Mel Stottlemyre

NYY

BOS

Bill Monbouquett

5

2-1

9/29/1965

Bob Gibson

STL

@SFG

Gaylord Perry

8

4-0

7/3/1966

Tony Cloninger

ATL

@SFG

Bob Priddy

1

3-0

7/3/1966

Tony Cloninger

ATL

@SFG

Ray Sadecki

4

9-0

8/13/1966

Earl Wilson

DET

@BOS

Dan Osinski

7

6-1

5/20/1967

Jack Hamilton

NYM

STL

Al Jackson

2

0-0

6/1/1967

John O'Donoghue

CLE

@DET

Denny McLain

6

2-0

5/5/1968

Gary Peters

CHW

NYY

Al Downing

4

1-0

7/28/1968

Al McBean

PIT

STL

Larry Jaster

5

3-1

8/26/1968

Dave McNally

BAL

OAK

Chuck Dobson

1

3-0

7/9/1969

Fred Talbot

SEP

CAL

Eddie Fisher

6

3-0

9/4/1970

Mike Corkins

SDP

@CIN

Jim Merritt

4

3-0

5/11/1971

Steve Dunning

CLE

OAK

Diego Segui

2

1-0

8/28/1971

Rick Wise

PHI

SFG

Don McMahon

7

3-3

9/16/1972

Burt Hooton

CHC

NYM

Tom Seaver

3

4-1

7/26/1973

Bob Gibson

STL

NYM

John Strohmayer

5

6-1

8/21/1973

Rick Wise

STL

@ATL

Roric Harrison

3

3-0

6/24/1974

Jim Lonborg

PHI

@MON

Chuck Taylor

3

4-0

7/6/1977

Don Stanhouse

MON

@CHC

Bill Bonham

2

1-1

9/27/1977

Larry Christenson

PHI

@CHC

Dennis Lamp

7

7-2

8/26/1979

Bruce Kison

PIT

@SDP

Bob Shirley

2

1-0

10/1/1980

Enrique Romo

PIT

@NYM

Roy Lee Jackson

8

6-3

9/11/1982

Scott Sanderson

MON

@CHC

Randy Martz

3

3-1

5/15/1984

Joaquin Andujar

STL

ATL

Jeff Dedmon

8

5-1

5/16/1984

Steve Carlton

PHI

@LAD

Fernando Valenzu

4

1-1

9/12/1985

Don Robinson

PIT

CHC

Warren Brusstar

8

6-2

8/10/1986

Bob Forsch

STL

PIT

Mike Bielecki

5

1-0

5/29/1995

Chris Hammond

FLA

HOU

Shane Reynolds

2

0-2

6/27/1995

Denny Neagle

PIT

@CHC

Jim Bullinger

6

2-2

8/25/1995

Jeff Juden

PHI

LAD

John Cummings

4

10-2

9/7/1996

Donovan Osborne

STL

SDP

Andy Ashby

5

1-1

7/20/1998

Kevin Tapani

CHC

@ATL

Denny Neagle

3

1-0

9/2/1998

Kent Mercker

STL

@FLA

Jesus Sanchez

4

3-0

5/24/2000

Shawn Estes

SFG

MON

Mike Johnson

5

7-0

9/29/2001

Denny Neagle

COL

MIL

Jimmy Haynes

4

9-6

6/2/2002

Robert Person

PHI

MON

Bruce Chen

1

3-0

7/7/2006

Dontrelle Willis

FLA

@NYM

Jose Lima

4

3-0

6/23/2008

Felix Hernandez

SEA

@NYM

Johan Santana

2

0-0

9/22/2008

Jason Marquis

CHC

@NYM

Jonathon Niese

4

2-2

10/1/2009

Chris Carpenter

STL

@CIN

Kip Wells

2

1-0

UPDATE: Two pitchers have hit postseason grand slams. Both were on the same team in the same year. On October 3, 1970, Baltimore's Mike Cuellar hit one off Minnesota's Jim Perry in Game 1 of the ALCS. Ten days later, Dave McNally hit one in Game 3 of the World Series off Cincinnati's Wayne Granger.

4 comments:

Yeah Bob Gibson is always on top of best pitchers of all time list. Do you agree? He was very popular baseball player and represented his team quite well. For my cousin, he is the ideal and he wants to play the game like him.best pitchers in baseball

Some say Atlanta Brave Tony Cloninger's record of 2 slams in a game by a pitcher will never be equaled, owning to the platooning of pitchers during a game which now common. (relievers) and of course, the DH in the AL. BUT.....Tony accomplished his feat in just the first 4 innings....After the historic game he dead-panned " How come no one asked me about my pitching today?"